Re: What does this error really mean?

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

On 18. okt. 2005, at 02.05, Ben Hartshorne wrote:

> I've got this error sprinkled through my logs.  I'm curious what it
> actually means.
>
> GENERIC: error receiving data -- Resource temporarily unavailable
>
> At what point did the test fail?  Did it...
> *

It means that the connection end-point (the server) did not provide  
data when monit was trying to read. It may help if you increase the  
connection timeout from the default which is 5 sec.

> Here's the relevant section of the monit config file:
>
> check host Google with address www.google.com
>         start program = "/bin/true"
>         stop program = "/bin/true"
>         if 3 restarts within 4 cycles then timeout
>       if failed url http://www.google.com/
>               then restart

This error should come from a send/expect statement, are sure you  
don't have one of those in your config file?


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